Bread Communion. This is out Multigenerational Thanksgiving service. We are asking everyone to bring in bread from your family traditional meals to share with your East Shore family.
We all forget things. Little things and big things leave our minds all the time. Mostly, it doesn’t matter all that much to us, since we don’t know what we don’t remember. But what if there was a way to forget less, and deepen our experience of life? Maybe the little things wouldn’t be so little. Sounding of the Singing Bowl (Rev Denis) …
Melissa Jeter is a commissioned lay minister.
Wayside shrines exist all over North America, in the form of small chapels between village centers, and the memorials that pop along highways after fatal collisions, and in commemoration of beloved public figures. They serve a lot of different functions beyond just getting us to stop and pay attention. The first Sunday of each month is food month. Please bring non-perishable food…
(With guest musician Laura Silverman) It used to be that right was right and left was wrong, at least when it came to manual dexterity. Sometimes that adage was, and still is, applied to beliefs. Leftedness, to coin a phrase, may not be wrong, but it may be a way of looking at things a bit differently, at least in terms of…
Sometimes communities have obvious members and clearly defined boundaries. Sometimes they aren’t obvious at all to their own members, even though every “outsider” recognizes the characteristics that hold them together. Sometimes the similarities run much deeper than you’d think. The first Sunday of each month is food month. Please bring non-perishable food items and/or toiletries to be shared with Kirtland’s food pantry…
Love and Hope — two of the most uplifting of human experiences — aren’t exactly the same thing, but they certainly need one another to survive. The thing that unites them must be positive. But maybe that thing isn’t all warm sunshine and sweet kisses. Personal Reflection Dorothy Lemmey “To love is to be afraid. You are frightened, deathly terrified, that something will…
Each year, we make time in our church calendar to bless the pets, in the tradition of Francis of Assisi, protector of the environment and patron saint of animals. This year, the ceremony and service will be led by Director of Religious Education Halcyon Domanski and youth August Zelch who is a caregiver to dozens of pets that include many reptiles and…
In the 1920’s, Clarence Larkin set out to map the various eras of humanity — “ages” and “dispensations” — and our role in making them happen. It may just be one of the most influential ideas you’ve never heard of from the last century. Sermon “Ages and Dispensations” Rev. Denis Letourneau Paul I came across an article recently that intrigued me so much,…